huddersfield friendly

[the RL kid]

Does anyone think its a good idea to have all our new signings playing in the friendly on sunday?

[02rinman]

yeah. he will play his best 13 to gel them together in time for the start of the season.

[adrenalinxx]

I do, there are alot of new players and it is important that they get time playing together. There are some important new partnerships at Wigan, the half backs are an important one as are the centre with wingers and half backs.

These friendly matches could be the diffarance between a poor start and a great start to next season.

The down side is your risk injuries to the squad but injuries can happy in any match its just something the club and players have to deal with.

[the RL kid]

I know that but is that not meant to happen on th training field? What if Trent and bailey get big injuries on sunday. Noble can only blame himself, afterall there only friendlies and nothing more, no points are at stake.

[adrenalinxx]

the RL kid posted:
I know that but is that not meant to happen on th training field? What if Trent and bailey get big injuries on sunday. Noble can only blame himself, afterall there only friendlies and nothing more, no points are at stake.

Training does not provide a match situation, there is alot more pressure on players even if it just a friendly match. I think the "don't play players because they might get injured" idea is not relevent because players could get injuried in a friendly, first match of the season or any other match in the season. They could also be injured during training or just while getting on with their lifes.

Gareth Hock once missed to matches after cutting his hand with a potato pealer there is nothing the club can do about that.

There might not be any points available for the actual match but there will be in a few weeks and you want your players to be ready. If Wigan played the youngster then against Warrington we would have players playing who have never played together before.

[02rinman]

That could also happen on the training pitch. he has to play the big guns to show that wigan mean business this season.

[Bear]

Yes and No

Yes: It will bring the team together and they will play as a unit in super leauge rather than one and another

No: There are risk of injuries

[waterside glens]

yes! you can't get up to match pace in trainning,if we didn't have friendlies we would be well of the pace of the rest of SL.

[Bring on the Warriors]

I think that it is a good idea as the team can now gel together and learn how each other play. The situation is different on the training paddock than it is on the pitch. The players need to gel as quick as possible, as we don't want a bad start to the season again!

[j+jsgran]

Hope so or else my journey will be a complete waste of time on Sunday